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That's What She Said with Sarah Spain

Man in Blazer: Roger Bennett

That's What She Said with Sarah Spain

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.93.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Sarah talks with Roger Bennett of Men in Blazers about how being an Everton fan has shaped his outlook on life, how his American pen pal made him fall in love with the Chicago White Sox, how not being able to watch the World Cup Final led to meeting his professional partner, and why becoming a US citizen was one of the best days of his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

That's what she said. That's what she said. That's what she said. That's what she said.

0:04.6

Well, that's what she said.

0:11.1

Welcome to That's what she said. Conversations with interesting people from the world

0:15.1

of sports, music, comedy and more. Talk about their lives, careers, successes and failures.

0:21.2

I'm Roachie Bennett, my god, Lamar is. I have too many telling lamas.

0:26.9

Oh, man, this guy Roger Bennett. What a fascinating dude. Okay, so he says in the podcast

0:31.6

multiple times that he lives in darkness and he's full of gloom and self-doubt and anxiety.

0:35.8

But he also consistently describes life and living in America and put ball a.k.a soccer

0:42.3

and his wife and everything with such poetic glowing prose. He's truly a man of great extremes.

0:48.4

So this dilemma of having too many dilemmas, Roger, I don't actually think you have too many dilemmas.

0:54.3

I think you're maybe just more comfortable always being slightly uncomfortable.

0:58.8

You've got to sort of balance your enormous joy for things like heart to heart and Chicago bears

1:04.5

and Dana Plato in different strokes with a enormous distress over other things.

1:10.1

And I feel like if I stripped you of these dilemmas real and imagined,

1:14.6

I fear I'd then be changing your very soul. I'd be stripping you of your liver,

1:19.4

puddley and angst and stealing away that very deeply British despair that makes you you.

1:25.2

So just this once, I actually refused to solve a dilemma. I'm going to keep you just as you are.

1:31.6

The commission has spoken.

1:34.7

Oh, by the way, stick around for a bonus dilemma that I solve from Katie Nolan at the end of the pod.

1:41.1

My guess this week is Roger Bennett, the co-host of Men in Blazers with Michael Davies,

1:45.6

a wildly popular football, aka soccer podcast and show on NBC Sports Network.

1:51.0

The show's tagline is, we believe soccer is America's sport of the future, as it has been since 1972.

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